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Harvest Wagon
Categories: Shopping Flowers & Gifts Florists Food Specialty Food Fruits & Veggies Florists, Fruits & Veggies [Edit]
1103 Yonge StToronto, ON M4W 2L7
Neighbourhoods: Rosedale, Summer Hill
(416) 923-7542
- Hours:
Mon-Sat 8 am - 7 pm
Sun 8 am - 6 pm
- Price Range:
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$$
- Wheelchair Accessible:
- No
3 reviews for Harvest Wagon
3 reviews in English
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Review from Larry L.
11/4/2009
I used to shop here all the time back in the day when I lived in the area. Yes it caters to the area and has some higher end clientelle.
I try to visit whenever I'm in town and I'm never dissapointed. Back in the day they were THE place to go for fresh produce. Especially the hard to find stuff, like mini veggies, Zucchini flowers and TRUFFLES!!!!. They still offer these goodies and the prices are good, well some prices are high, but I think you get what you pay for.
The folks there are true Italians with great service and a smile. Once you get to know them, it's like visiting family. For me, it's a familiar place with familiar faces and I can always get what I'm looking for.
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Review from Shari M.
Toronto, ON
10/11/2009
I agree with Luke A's review. You know for the area (Summerhill) it is not going to be cheap, and some of the clientele do have a great sense of entitlement.
I stopped by because it looked cute and I love little groc stores. Plus, they had a wide selection of apples and being an apple-holic, I had to check it out.
The place is tiny and tight on space. I admit that I did knock some pears off their display - whoops! But, considering the square inchage in this place they have tons in here. All the fruits and vegetables looked great. I bought 4 apples, 1 mango, 1 huge red grapefruit (another hollic addiction of mine) and some fresh cut mixed veggies (zucchini, red onion, peas, etc). This was $18.
The shop has a large selection of oils and vinegars. I would have perused more but was parked in a questionable spot out back and didn't want to take a tow-chance.
There is a little store next door that I did take a peek into. It is more of prepared foods. It is stupid expensive. I am sorry, I love gourmet, but I am not spending $5 or $6 on a loaf of tiny bread. The patrons in here again were high on entitlement. They pushed/walked right in front of you and did not want to share the small space. I did not purchase anything in this store due to the high prices and the pushy customers.
I will stick with the little fruit markets, Kensington and St Lawrence for my fresh fruit and veg. For luxury and gourmet - Whole Foods, McEwan and Longos suit me just fine.Listed in: Push the Grocery Cart
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Review from Luke A.
Toronto, ON
9/20/2008 1 photo
Since this is right around Rosedale, it's probably too much to expect Harvest Wagon to be a super-cheap green grocer. They cater to a yuppier crowd, and seem to do so rather well, considering the folksy, frontier-town look, and the emphasis on organic produce.
But real organic, fresh from the farm produce is usually sold off the back of a truck, or at some shack set up off a rural highway--so there's a bit of marketing at work at the Harvest Wagon. They do have a diverse selection of exotic fruits and vegetables (which you'd never find locally anyway), and the prices are, in some cases, reasonable. For instance, organic apples (in cutesy wooden bins, no less) go for about the same as regular apples in supermarkets in the surrounding neighbourhood.
